First time pistol owner, have had my CPX-2 for about 6 months. 350 rounds into my experience, I am mostly satisfied with my gun. Early on, Hornday CDR's and hollow points would not feed, but now they feed fine. Now I'm getting intermittent fail-to-feed. Today I shot 100 rounds, and had four (4) FTF's. They cleared quickly and easily. With a pull of the slide they chambered and fired fine. Always happened mid-clip.

As a first time owner, I simply don't know ... is a 4% FTF rate excessive? On the range, it's a nuisance. Heaven forbid, if I should have to use it for self defense, it could be deadly. I need the gun to go 'bang' every time I pull the trigger.

I disassemble and clean my gun after every range trip. I welcome your thoughts.

El Guapo wrote:First time pistol owner, have had my CPX-2 for about 6 months. 350 rounds into my experience, I am mostly satisfied with my gun. Early on, Hornday CDR's and hollow points would not feed, but now they feed fine. Now I'm getting intermittent fail-to-feed. Today I shot 100 rounds, and had four (4) FTF's. They cleared quickly and easily. With a pull of the slide they chambered and fired fine. Always happened mid-clip.

As a first time owner, I simply don't know ... is a 4% FTF rate excessive? On the range, it's a nuisance. Heaven forbid, if I should have to use it for self defense, it could be deadly. I need the gun to go 'bang' every time I pull the trigger.

I disassemble and clean my gun after every range trip. I welcome your thoughts.

Well, even though I like my SCCY's, I do have to admit that they are kinda ammo sensitive. I have even had issues with certain "ball" ammo, let alone JHP's. I have found that mine like basically any JHP, with a smaller hole in the nose of the bullet. I have scored on some Independence 115 grain JHP ammo lately, at one of the LGS's, and it seems to run well in both of my pistols.

Shot both my CPX-2's yesterday, and I can say this. Both of mine do not like 147 grain JHP's. I had three boxes of Speer 147 grainers on hand, and decided to see if they would cycle in the two pistols...they did not. Every round was a FTF. Well, I'll just keep them for the Hi Points, the one Glock, and my Hi Point carbine.

On the up side though, I ran 30 rounds through the older one and 30 rounds through the newer one, all without a hitch...they were 115's and 124's though. I bought a box of the Aguila 124 ball rounds, and they did just fine. I ran 10 rounds of that, through each gun without any hangups.

I think I'm at 150 rounds now through mine, only FTF has been due to limp wristing by the other person that's shooting or riding the slide when loading a mag, while firing in my hand my SCCY has not malfunctioned yet. So far I've only used:115grn American Eagle FMJ brass115grn Remington UMC JHPI carry the UMC in it daily.I know a lot of people are all the rage about the 147grn JHPs, but from what I've read it seems the SCCYs can be picky about these. My brother in-law's Hi Point C9 won't stop choking up on the same rounds, FTF where the round doesn't go into the barrel and instead is stuck inside the pistol, you need three hands and pair of pliers to remove it; I keep telling him to send it back in for warranty but he's not really a gun guy and just likes shooting my SCCY instead.

Whitebear620 wrote:I know a lot of people are all the rage about the 147grn JHPs, but from what I've read it seems the SCCYs can be picky about these.

My Sky will eat 147 gr for breakfast,lunch and dinner ..if I let it.

Lol, consider yourself lucky! Mine will run just about every bullet profile, even my Remington Golden Sabres, as long as they are 124 grain or less. I think the bullet profile, on the 147's, are too long for mine to cycle correctly. That's no biggy for me though, because with the 995 carbine and it's 16" barrel, those 147's run a little faster anyways...I like them in the carbine.